Startup investigation reveals 50 peer-reviewed papers contained hallucinated citations

A good use for AI

You can use AI to spy out AI! GPTZero, the startup behind an artificial intelligence (AI) detector that checks for large language model (LLM)-generated content, has found that 50 peer-reviewed submissions to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) contain at least one obvious hallucinated citation—meaning a citation that was dreamed up by AI. ICLR is the leading academic conference that focuses on the deep-learning branch…

Startup investigation reveals 50 peer-reviewed papers contained hallucinated citations

GPTZero found “obvious” instances of false, LLM-generated references in academic papers.